Lexical Summary Ashshuwr: step, going Original Word: אַשּׁוּרTransliteration: Ashshuwr Phonetic Spelling: (ash-shoor') Part of Speech: proper name, of a people and territory Short Definition: step, going Meaning: Ashshur Strong's Concordance Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians Or iashshur {ash-shoor'}; apparently from 'ashar (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire -- Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 'ashur. see HEBREW 'ashar see HEBREW 'ashur Brown-Driver-Briggs H804. Ashshuwr אַשּׁוּר proper name, of a people & territory Asshur, Assyria (Assyrian Aššur, land & city DlPa 252 COT on Genesis 2:14; Persian Athura, Syriac ; on the connection with name of god Ašur, & with √ אשׁר = ישׁר good, gracious, compare COTl.c.; see also JenZA, 1886, 1 f. Schrib. 209 f. Nöib. 268 f.) 1 Asshur as person, 2nd son of Shem Genesis 10:22 (P, in table of nations) 1 Chronicles 1:17. 2 people of Asshur (often as invading army & even world-power) Numbers 24:22, 24 (poem of Balaam) Hosea 12:2; 14:4; Isaiah 10:5; 14:25; 19:23 (twice in verse); 19:24-25, 23:13; 30:31; 31:8; 52:4; Lamentations 5:6; Ezekiel 23:5; 27:23; 32:22 (here feminine) Zechariah 10:11; Psalm 83:9 perhaps read גְּשׁוּר, compare 2 Samuel 2:9 below אֲשׁוּרִי; or (if Psalm 83 be late) regard אַשּׁוּר (like עֲמָלֵק ib.) as used because of ancient significance; sometimes personified as one Isaiah 10:5; Ezekiel 31:3 (but strike out Co q. v.), compare also Micah 5:4; 5:5; Zephaniah 2:13; א ׳מַחֲנֵה 2 Kings 19:32 = Isaiah 37:36; א ׳בְּנֵי Ezekiel 16:28; 23:7, 9, 12, 23. 3 land of Assyria Genesis 2:14; 10:11; Hosea 5:13; 7:11; 8:9; 9:3; 10:6; Isaiah 11:11, 16; 19:23; Jeremiah 2:18, 36; Micah 7:12; Zechariah 10:10; אַשּׁ֫וּרָה Genesis 25:18; Isaiah 19:23; 2 Kings 15:29; 17:6, 23; 18:11; אַשּׁוּר אֶרֶץ Isaiah 7:18; 27:13; Hosea 11:11; Micah 5:5. 4 especially אַשּׁוּר מֶלֶךְ Isaiah 8:4; 10:12; 20:1, 4, 6 (probably gloss 7:17, 20; 8:7) 2 Kings 15:19 41t. 2Kings; 14t. Isaiah 36-38; 1 Chronicles 5:6 (אַשֻּׁר) + 13 t. Chronicles; also Jeremiah 50:17-18, Nahum 3:18; Ezra 4:2; (only 6:22 of Persian or any king not strictly Assyrian); note also א ׳הַמֶּלֶךְ Isaiah 36:8, 16 (׳א perhaps gloss, compare Di who holds same view as to 2 Kings 18:23, 31); א ׳מַלְכֵי 19:11, 17 = Isaiah 37:11, 18; 2 Chronicles 28:16; 30:6; Nehemiah 9:32. |
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